Most
people do not understand that many teachers, preachers, and rabbi are not going
to enter heaven. These ministers of Satan look like they are of God. They themselves
believe they are of God. Nevertheless, they are leading people to hell. It is
written, Mt 23:13-BUT WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE
SHUT UP THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AGAINST MEN: FOR YE NEITHER GO IN YOURSELVES,
NEITHER SUFFER YE THEM THAT ARE ENTERING TO GO IN. Many religious leaders cause
people to perish through their deceit.

85-BEWARE
OF LEAVEN

The
false doctrine of the religious leaders causes many to fall. False doctrine
is like yeast (or leaven); it grows and grows. In the church age we are currently
living, false doctrine has become so embedded and interwoven in the teaching,
that where truth and deceit begin and leave off, who can tell? It is written,
Mk 8:14-21-NOW THE DISCIPLES HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE BREAD, NEITHER HAD THEY IN
THE SHIP WITH THEM MORE THAN ONE LOAF. AND HE CHARGED THEM, SAYING, TAKE HEED,
BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, AND OF THE LEAVEN OF HEROD. AND
THEY REASONED AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE NO BREAD. AND
WHEN JESUS KNEW IT, HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHY REASON YE, BECAUSE YE HAVE NO BREAD?
PERCEIVE YE NOT YET, NEITHER UNDERSTAND? HAVE YE YOUR HEART YET HARDENED?
HAVING EYES, SEE YE NOT? AND HAVING EARS, HEAR YE NOT? AND DO YE NOT REMEMBER?
WHEN I BRAKE THE FIVE LOAVES AMONG FIVE THOUSAND, HOW MANY BASKETS FULL OF
FRAGMENTS TOOK YE UP? THEY SAY UNTO HIM, TWELVE. AND WHEN THE SEVEN AMONG
FOUR THOUSAND, HOW MANY BASKETS FULL OF FRAGMENTS TOOK YE UP? AND THEY
SAID, SEVEN. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW IS IT THAT YE DO NOT UNDERSTAND?
From the good doctrine that Jesus brought forth has come thousands of fragments;
thousands of false doctrines have come from the good.
Mt 16:6-12-THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED AND BEWARE
OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES. AND THEY REASONED AMONG
THEMSELVES, SAYING, IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE TAKEN NO BREAD. WHICH WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED,
HE SAID UNTO THEM, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH, WHY REASON YE AMONG YOURSELVES,
BECAUSE YE HAVE BROUGHT NO BREAD? DO YE YET NOT UNDERSTAND, NEITHER REMEMBER
THE FIVE LOAVES OF THE FIVE THOUSAND, AND HOW MANY BASKETS YE TOOK UP?
NEITHER THE SEVEN LOAVES OF THE FOUR THOUSAND, AND HOW MANY BASKETS YE TOOK
UP? HOW IS IT THAT YE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I SPAKE IT NOT TO YOU
CONCERNING BREAD, THAT YE SHOULD BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES
AND OF THE SADDUCEES? THEN UNDERSTOOD THEY HOW THAT HE BADE THEM
NOT BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF BREAD, BUT OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PHARISEES
AND OF THE SADDUCEES.Lk 12:1-IN THE MEAN TIME, WHEN THERE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER
AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE, INSOMUCH THAT THEY TRODE ONE UPON ANOTHER,
HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO HIS DISCIPLES FIRST OF ALL, BEWARE YE OF THE LEAVEN
OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH IS HYPOCRISY.

86-BEWARE
OF THE SCRIBES

Mk
12:38-AND HE SAID UNTO THEM IN HIS DOCTRINE, BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES, WHICH
LOVE TO GO IN LONG CLOTHING, AND LOVE SALUTATIONS IN THE MARKET PLACES.
Lk 20:46-BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES, WHICH DESIRE TO WALK
IN LONG ROBES, AND LOVE GREETINGS IN THE MARKETS, AND THE HIGHEST SEATS IN THE
SYNAGOGUES, AND THE CHIEF ROOMS AT FEASTS.

87-BEWARE
OF FALSE PROPHETS

Mt
7:15-BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS, WHICH COME TO YOU IN SHEEPíS CLOTHING,
BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE RAVENING WOLVES.

88-BEWARE
OF MEN

Mt
10:17-BUT BEWARE OF MEN: FOR THEY WILL DELIVER YOU UP TO THE COUNCILS,
AND THEY WILL SCOURGE YOU IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES.

BEWARE

89-THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS: THEY MAKE YOU TO PERISH

Mt
23:15-WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBESAND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE
COMPASS SEA AND LAND TO MAKE ONE PROSELYTE; AND WHEN HE IS MADE, YE MAKE HIM
TWOFOLD MORE THE CHILD OF HELL THAN YOURSELVES.

90-BEWARE,
TAKE HEED

Beware of the traditions
of men.
Beware of the Tribulation, lest you go into it.Ref Phili 3:2-BEWARE OF
DOGS.Ref Phili 3:2-BEWARE OF EVIL WORKERS.Ref Phili 3:2-BEWARE OF THE CONCISION.Col 2:8-BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY (which depends
on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ-NIV).Col 2:8-BEWARE...of VAIN DECEIT.Mk 13:33-TAKE YE HEED, WATCH AND PRAY.Lk 12:15-BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS.2 Pe 3:16,17-Beware, the unstable twist Scriptures.2 Pe 3:17-BEWARE, LEST you be LED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED.Mt 6:1-TAKE HEED...DO NOT YOUR ALMS...TO BE SEEN OF men.Mt 18:10-TAKE HEED THAT you do not DESPISE...LITTLE ONES.Mk 13:5-TAKE HEED LEST ANY MAN DECEIVE YOU.Lk 21:8-TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT DECEIVED.Mt 24:4-TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.Gal 5:15-TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT CONSUMED ONE OF ANOTHER.2 Pe 3:17-BEWARE LEST you...FALL.Ro 11:21-TAKE HEED, LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.1 Cor 10:12-TAKE HEED LEST you FALL.Heb 3:12-TAKE HEED...LEST THERE BE IN YOU...UNBELIEF.Heb 3:12-TAKE HEED...LEST...you depart FROM THE LIVING GOD.Lk 21:34-TAKE HEED...SURFEITING (overeating).Lk 21:34-TAKE HEED...regarding the CARES OF THIS LIFE.Lk 11:35 TAKE HEED...THAT THE LIGHT WHICH IS IN THEE BE NOT DARKNESS.Mk 4:24-TAKE HEED WHAT YE HEAR.Lk 8:18-TAKE HEED...HOW YE HEAR.1 Tim 4:16-TAKE HEED...UNTO THE DOCTRINE; CONTINUE IN THEM.1 Cor 3:10-TAKE HEED HOW you build.Col 4:17-TAKE HEED TO THE MINISTRY you have RECEIVED.Acts 20:28-TAKE HEED...FEED THE CHURCH OF GOD.Lk 17:3-TAKE HEED...IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HIM;
but if he repents, FORGIVE HIM.Mk 13:23-TAKE...HEED...I HAVE told you before.Mk 13:9-TAKE HEED...THEY SHALL DELIVER YOU UP.1 Cor 8:9-TAKE HEED LEST...your
LIBERTY... BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK TO OTHERS.

91-AFRAID
OR FEAR

A
born-again Christian may become afraid and begin to fall if he focuses on his
circumstances and gets his eyes off Jesus, Who is his trust. It is written,
Mt 14:23-32-AND WHEN HE HAD SENT THE MULTITUDES AWAY, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN
APART TO PRAY: AND WHEN THE EVENING WAS COME, HE WAS THERE ALONE. BUT THE
SHIP WAS NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, TOSSED WITH WAVES: FOR THE
WIND WAS CONTRARY. AND IN THE FOURTH WATCH OF THE NIGHT JESUS WENT UNTO
THEM, WALKING ON THE SEA. AND WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW HIM WALKING ON THE SEA,
THEY WERE TROUBLED, SAYING, IT IS A SPIRIT; AND THEY CRIED OUT FOR FEAR. BUT
STRAIGHTWAY JESUS SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, BE OF GOOD CHEER; IT IS I; BE
NOT AFRAID. AND PETER ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, LORD, IF IT BE THOU, BID ME
COME UNTO THEE ON THE WATER. AND HE SAID, COME. AND WHEN PETER WAS COME DOWN
OUT OF THE SHIP, HE WALKED ON THE WATER, TO GO TO JESUS. BUT WHEN HE SAW
THE WIND BOISTEROUS, HE WAS AFRAID; AND BEGINNING TO SINK, HE CRIED, SAYING,
LORD, SAVE ME. AND IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND, AND CAUGHT HIM,
AND SAID UNTO HIM, O THOU OF LITTLE FAITH, WHEREFORE DIDST THOU DOUBT? AND WHEN
THEY WERE COME INTO THE SHIP, THE WIND CEASED. While Peterís eyes were on Jesus,
he did not sink, but when he got his eyes off Jesus and on the situation at
hand, he began to sink.

AFRAID
OF WHAT MAY HAPPEN:

92-JESUS
WAS NOT AFRAID

Mk
14:36-AND HE (Jesus) SAID, ABBA, FATHER, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE UNTO THEE;
TAKE AWAY THIS CUP FROM ME: NEVERTHELESS, NOT WHAT I WILL, BUT WHAT THOU
WILT. Jesus obeyed His Father.
Lk 22:41,42-AND HE WAS WITHDRAWN FROM THEM ABOUT A STONEíS
CAST, AND KNEELED DOWN, AND PRAYED, SAYING, FATHER, IF THOU BE WILLING, REMOVE
THIS CUP FROM ME: NEVERTHELESS, NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE, BE DONE.
Mt 26:37,39-AND HE TOOK WITH HIM PETER AND THE TWO SONS OF
ZEBEDEE, AND BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL AND VERY HEAVY. AND HE WENT A LITTLE
FURTHER, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF IT BE POSSIBLE,
LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME: NEVERTHELESS, NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU WILT.

93-THE
DISCIPLES WERE AFRAID

Even
though the disciples were with Jesus, they were afraid. Nevertheless, their
fear did not stop them. It is written, Mk 10:32-AND THEY WERE IN THE WAY GOING
UP TO JERUSALEM; AND JESUS WENT BEFORE THEM: AND THEY WERE AMAZED; AND AS THEY
FOLLOWED, THEY WERE AFRAID. AND HE TOOK AGAIN THE TWELVE, AND BEGAN TO
TELL THEM WHAT THINGS SHOULD HAPPEN UNTO HIM.
The unprofitable servant was afraid. His fear caused him
to be unprofitable in serving God. It is written, Mt 25:26-AND I WAS AFRAID,
AND WENT AND HID THY TALENT IN THE EARTH: LO, THERE THOU HAST THAT IS THINE.
Ref Lk 19:21.

PEOPLE
CAN MAKE YOU AFRAID

94-PETER
FEARED AND DENIED JESUS

People
and circumstances can make a Christian afraid. It is written, Mt 26:58,69-75-BUT
PETER FOLLOWED HIM AFAR OFF UNTO THE HIGH PRIESTíS PALACE, AND WENT IN, AND
SAT WITH THE SERVANTS, TO SEE THE END. NOW PETER SAT WITHOUT IN THE PALACE:
AND A DAMSEL CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, THOU ALSO WAST WITH JESUS OF GALILEE. BUT
HE DENIED BEFORE THEM ALL, SAYING, I KNOW NOT WHAT THOU SAYEST. AND WHEN
HE WAS GONE OUT INTO THE PORCH, ANOTHER MAID SAW HIM, AND SAID UNTO THEM THAT
WERE THERE, THIS FELLOW WAS ALSO WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH. AND AGAIN HE DENIED
WITH AN OATH, I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN. AND AFTER A WHILE CAME UNTO HIM THEY
THAT STOOD BY, AND SAID TO PETER, SURELY THOU ALSO ART ONE OF THEM; FOR THY
SPEECH BEWRAYETH THEE. THEN BEGAN HE TO CURSE AND TO SWEAR, SAYING, I KNOW
NOT THE MAN. AND IMMEDIATELY THE COCK CREW. AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD
OF JESUS, WHICH SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE.
AND HE WENT OUT, AND WEPT BITTERLY. Also ref Lk 22:55-62; Jn 18:16-18,25-27.

95-PARENTS
AFRAID TO CONFESS JESUS

The
blind man had been healed. However, his mother and father feared to say it was
Jesus, because they could be put out of the synagogue. Therefore, they said,
"Ask him." It is written, Jn 9:20-22-HIS PARENTS ANSWERED THEM AND
SAID, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS OUR SON, AND THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND: BUT BY WHAT
MEANS HE NOW SEETH, WE KNOW NOT; OR WHO HATH OPENED HIS EYES, WE KNOW NOT:
HE IS OF AGE; ASK HIM: HE SHALL SPEAK FOR HIMSELF. THESE WORDS SPAKE HIS
PARENTS, BECAUSE THEY FEARED THE JEWS: FOR THE JEWS HAD AGREED ALREADY,
THAT IF ANY MAN DID CONFESS THAT HE WAS CHRIST, HE SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF THE
SYNAGOGUE.

96-NOT
CONFESS BECAUSE OF FEAR

Some
people perish because they are afraid to confess Jesus. They deny Him because
of fear. It is written, Jn 12:42,43-NEVERTHELESS AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS ALSO
MANY BELIEVED ON HIM; BUT BECAUSE OF THE PHARISEES THEY DID NOT CONFESS HIM,
LEST THEY SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE: FOR THEY LOVED THE PRAISE OF MEN
MORE THAN THE PRAISE OF GOD.

97-AFRAID
TO ASK YOUR TEACHER

The
disciples did not understand what Jesus said. They were afraid to ask. It is
written, Lk 9:45-BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THIS SAYING, AND IT WAS HID
FROM THEM, THAT THEY PERCEIVED IT NOT: AND THEY FEARED TO ASK HIM OF THAT
SAYING.
Mk 9:31,32-FOR HE TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES, AND SAID UNTO THEM,
THE SON OF MAN IS DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF MEN, AND THEY SHALL KILL HIM;
AND AFTER THAT HE IS KILLED, HE SHALL RISE THE THIRD DAY. BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD
NOT THAT SAYING, AND WERE AFRAID TO ASK HIM.

DOUBTS:
BORN-AGAIN PEOPLE

98-THE
DISCIPLES: SOME DOUBTED

Because
of events that are happening, a person may have doubts. This sometimes may be
due to a lack of understanding. It is written, Mt 28:17-AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM,
THEY WORSHIPPED HIM: BUT SOME DOUBTED.
Mt 28:16,17-THEN THE ELEVEN DISCIPLES WENT AWAY INTO GALILEE,
INTO A MOUNTAIN WHERE JESUS HAD APPOINTED THEM. AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY
WORSHIPPED HIM: BUT SOME DOUBTED.
Jn 20:24,25-BUT THOMAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED DIDYMUS,
WAS NOT WITH THEM WHEN JESUS CAME. THE OTHER DISCIPLES THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM,
WE HAVE SEEN THE LORD. BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, EXCEPT I SHALL SEE IN HIS HANDS
THE PRINT OF THE NAILS, AND PUT MY FINGER INTO THE PRINT OF THE NAILS, AND THRUST
MY HAND INTO HIS SIDE, I WILL NOT BELIEVE.

99-JOHN
THE BAPTIST HAD DOUBTS

Lk
7:18-23-AND THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN SHEWED HIM OF ALL THESE THINGS. AND JOHN CALLING
UNTO HIM TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES SENT THEM TO JESUS, SAYING, ART THOU HE THAT
SHOULD COME? OR LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER? WHEN THE MEN WERE COME UNTO HIM, THEY
SAID, JOHN BAPTIST HATH SENT US UNTO THEE, SAYING, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME?
OR LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER? AND IN THAT SAME HOUR HE CURED MANY OF THEIR INFIRMITIES
AND PLAGUES, AND OF EVIL SPIRITS; AND UNTO MANY THAT WERE BLIND HE GAVE SIGHT.
THEN JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO THEM, GO YOUR WAY, AND TELL JOHN WHAT THINGS
YE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD; HOW THAT THE BLIND SEE, THE LAME WALK, THE LEPERS ARE
CLEANSED, THE DEAF HEAR, THE DEAD ARE RAISED, TO THE POOR THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED.
AND BLESSED IS HE, WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT BE OFFENDED IN ME. Also ref Mt 11:2-6.

100-MEETINGS
AGAINST YOU

As
a follower of Jesus, there may be meetings held about you behind your back.
These meetings may be on how to stop you from serving God, or how to overthrow
your faith, or even how to kill you. It is written, Mk 3:6-AND THE PHARISEES
WENT FORTH, AND STRAIGHTWAY TOOK COUNSEL WITH THE HERODIANS AGAINST HIM,
HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM.
Mt 27:1-WHEN THE MORNING WAS COME, ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS
AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE TOOK COUNSEL AGAINST JESUS TO PUT HIM TO DEATH.
Mt 22:15-THEN WENT THE PHARISEES, AND TOOK COUNSEL HOW
THEY MIGHT ENTANGLE HIM IN HIS TALK.
Jn 11:53-THEN FROM THAT DAY FORTH THEY TOOK COUNSEL TOGETHER
FOR TO PUT HIM TO DEATH.
Mt 26:14-16-THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT,
WENT UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT WILL YE
GIVE ME, AND I WILL DELIVER HIM UNTO YOU? AND THEY COVENANTED WITH HIM FOR
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. AND FROM THAT TIME HE SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY
HIM.
Mt 26:3-THEN ASSEMBLED TOGETHER THECHIEF PRIESTS,
AND THE SCRIBES, AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE, UNTO THE PALACE OF THE HIGH
PRIEST, WHO WAS CALLED CAIAPHAS, AND CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESUS
BY SUBTILTY, AND KILL HIM.
Mt 12:14-THEN THE PHARISEES WENT OUT, AND HELD
A COUNCIL AGAINST HIM, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM.
Mk 3:6-AND THE PHARISEES WENT FORTH, AND STRAIGHTWAY
TOOK COUNSEL WITH THE HERODIANS AGAINST HIM, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY
HIM.
Mk 15:1-AND STRAIGHTWAY IN THE MORNING THE CHIEF PRIESTS
HELD A CONSULTATION WITH THE ELDERS AND SCRIBES AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL, AND
BOUND JESUS, AND CARRIED HIM AWAY, AND DELIVERED HIM TO PILATE.
Jn 11:47-THEN GATHERED THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES
A COUNCIL, AND SAID, WHAT DO WE? FOR THIS MAN DOETH MANY MIRACLES.
Jn 11:53-THEN FROM THAT DAY FORTH THEY TOOK COUNSEL TOGETHER
FOR TO PUT HIM TO DEATH.

101-PEOPLE
MAY FORSAKE YOU

As
a follower of Jesus, you can expect that both professing Christians and other
people will turn against you and forsake you. They may tell those who hate you,
all about you, including what you do and how you do it, even as Judas forsook
Jesus and betrayed Him. It is written, Jn 11:43-47-AND WHEN HE (Jesus) THUS
HAD SPOKEN, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LAZARUS, COME FORTH. AND HE THAT WAS
DEAD CAME FORTH, BOUND HAND AND FOOT WITH GRAVECLOTHES: AND HIS FACE WAS BOUND
ABOUT WITH A NAPKIN. JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO. THEN
MANY OF THE JEWS WHICH CAME TO MARY, AND HAD SEEN THE THINGS WHICH JESUS DID,
BELIEVED ON HIM. BUT SOME OF THEM WENT THEIR WAYS TO THE PHARISEES, AND TOLD
THEM WHAT THINGS JESUS HAD DONE. THEN GATHERED THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND
THE PHARISEES A COUNCIL, AND SAID, WHAT DO WE? FOR THIS MAN DOETH MANY MIRACLES.
Mt 26:31-35-THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO THEM, ALL YE SHALL BE
OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD,
AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED ABROAD. BUT AFTER I AM RISEN
AGAIN, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE; PETER ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,
THOUGH ALL MEN SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF THEE, YET WILL I NEVER BE OFFENDED.
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, THAT THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE COCK
CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE. PETER SAID UNTO HIM, THOUGH I SHOULD DIE WITH
THEE, YET WILL I NOT DENY THEE. LIKEWISE ALSO SAID ALL THE DISCIPLES.
Mt 26:56-BUT ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE
PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED. THEN ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM, AND FLED.
Mk 14:50-AND THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM, AND FLED.

YOU MAY
BE BETRAYED BY A FRIEND:

102-JUDAS
BETRAYED JESUS

Mk
14:10,11-AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT UNTO THE
CHIEF PRIESTS, TO BETRAY HIM (Jesus) UNTO THEM. AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT,
THEY WERE GLAD AND PROMISED TO GIVE HIM MONEY. AND HE SOUGHT HOW HE MIGHT CONVENIENTLY
BETRAY HIM.
Lk 22:6-AND HE PROMISED, AND SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY
HIM UNTO THEM IN THE ABSENCE OF THE MULTITUDE.
Jn 13:21-WHEN JESUS HAD THUS SAID, HE WAS TROUBLED IN SPIRIT,
AND TESTIFIED, AND SAID, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT ONE OF YOU
SHALL BETRAY ME.
Jn 6:64-BUT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT BELIEVE NOT. FOR JESUS
KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING WHO THEY WERE THAT BELIEVED NOT, AND WHO SHOULD BETRAY
HIM.
Jn 6:71-HE SPAKE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE SON OF SIMON: FOR
HE IT WAS THAT SHOULD BETRAY HIM, BEING ONE OF THE TWELVE.
Jn 13:2-AND SUPPER BEING ENDED, THE DEVIL HAVING NOW PUT
INTO THE HEART OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, SIMONíS SON, TO BETRAY HIM.
Also ref-Lk 22:4; Mt 26:16,21; Jn 12:4; 13:11.
Ps 41:9-YEA, MINE OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND, IN
WHOM I TRUSTED, WHICH DID EAT OF MY BREAD, HATH LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST
ME.
Lk 22:47,48-AND WHILE HE YET SPAKE, BEHOLD A MULTITUDE, AND
HE THAT WAS CALLED JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT BEFORE THEM,
AND DREW NEAR UNTO JESUS TO KISS HIM. BUT JESUS SAID UNTO HIM,
JUDAS, BETRAYEST THOU THE SON OF MAN WITH A KISS? Judas had brought the
enemies of the cross to a secret location.

103-PEOPLE,
INCLUDING FRIENDS, AND RELATIVES MAY BETRAY YOU

From
strangers, to born-again brethren, to the most trusted members of your household,
these may betray you because you follow Jesus. They may accuse you and even
lie about you. Mt 24:10-AND THEN SHALL MANY BE OFFENDED, AND SHALL
BETRAY ONE ANOTHER, AND SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.
Mt 10:36-AND A MANíS FOES SHALL BE THEY OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD.
Mt 10:35-FOR I AM COME TO SET A MAN AT VARIANCE AGAINST
HIS FATHER, AND THE DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND THE DAUGHTER IN LAW AGAINST
HER MOTHER IN LAW.
Mt 10:21,22-AND THE BROTHER SHALL DELIVER UP THE BROTHER
TO DEATH, AND THE FATHER THE CHILD: AND THE CHILDREN SHALL RISE UP AGAINST
THEIR PARENTS, AND CAUSE THEM TO BE PUT TO DEATH. AND YE SHALL BE HATED
OF ALL MEN FOR MY NAMEíS SAKE: BUT HE THAT ENDURETH TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED.
Lk 21:16-AND YE SHALL BE BETRAYED BOTH BY PARENTS, AND
BRETHREN, AND KINSFOLKS, AND FRIENDS; AND SOME OF YOU SHALL THEY CAUSE TO
BE PUT TO DEATH.
Mk 13:12-NOW THE BROTHER SHALL BETRAY THE BROTHER TO DEATH,
AND THE FATHER THE SON; AND CHILDREN SHALL RISE UP AGAINST THEIR PARENTS,
AND SHALL CAUSE THEM TO BE PUT TO DEATH.

104-SUMMARY
OF WHO MAY BETRAY YOU

Brethren

Brother

Children

Daughter

Daughter in law

Father

Mother

Friends

Parents

People

Relatives

Whole household

105-YOU
MAY BE ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED, OR TIED UP

A
follower of Jesus may be arrested even as Jesus was arrested. Jesus had done
no wrong, yet He was condemned and crucified. It is written, Mt 26:46,47,50,55,57-RISE,
LET US BE GOING: BEHOLD, HE IS AT HAND THAT DOTH BETRAY ME. AND WHILE HE YET
SPAKE, LO, JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, CAME, AND WITH HIM A GREAT MULTITUDE WITH
SWORDS AND STAVES, FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE. AND JESUS
SAID UNTO HIM, FRIEND, WHEREFORE ART THOU COME? THEN CAME THEY, AND
LAID HANDS ON JESUS, AND TOOK HIM. IN THAT SAME HOUR SAID JESUS TO THE MULTITUDES,
ARE YE COME OUT AS AGAINST A THIEF WITH SWORDS AND STAVES FOR TO TAKE ME? I
SAT DAILY WITH YOU TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, AND YE LAID NO HOLD ON ME. AND THEY
THAT HAD LAID HOLD ON JESUS LED HIM AWAY TO CAIAPHAS THE HIGH PRIEST, WHERE
THE SCRIBES AND THE ELDERS WERE ASSEMBLED.
Mk 15:1-AND STRAIGHTWAY IN THE MORNING THE CHIEF PRIESTS
HELD A CONSULTATION WITH THE ELDERS AND SCRIBES AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL, AND BOUND
JESUS, AND CARRIED HIM AWAY, AND DELIVERED HIM TO PILATE. Ref Jn 18:12,24;
Mt 27:2; Mk 14:46.
John the Baptist had done no wrong. He testified the truth.
For this he was condemned. It is written, Mt 14:3,4-FOR HEROD HAD LAID HOLD
ON JOHN, AND BOUND HIM, AND PUT HIM IN PRISON FOR HERODIASí SAKE,
HIS BROTHER PHILIPíS WIFE. FOR JOHN SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEE
TO HAVE HER.

106-YOU
MAY BE BROUGHT BEFORE COURTS OF LAW AND OFFICIALS

A
follower of Jesus may be brought before courts of law, or government officials,
or others. They may be condemned even though they have done no wrong. It is
written:
Lk 21:12-BUT BEFORE ALL THESE, THEY SHALL LAY THEIR HANDS
ON YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU, DELIVERING YOU UP TO THE SYNAGOGUES, AND INTO PRISONS,
BEING BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS FOR MY NAMEíS SAKE.
Mt 10:17-19-BUT BEWARE OF MEN: FOR THEY WILL DELIVER YOU
UP TO THE COUNCILS, AND THEY WILL SCOURGE YOU IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES; AND YE
SHALL BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOVERNORS AND KINGS FOR MY SAKE, FOR A TESTIMONY
AGAINST THEM AND THE GENTILES. BUT WHEN THEY DELIVER YOU UP, TAKE NO THOUGHT
HOW OR WHAT YE SHALL SPEAK: FOR IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU IN THAT SAME HOUR WHAT
YE SHALL SPEAK.
Mk 13:9-BUT TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES: FOR THEY SHALL DELIVER
YOU UP TO COUNCILS; AND IN THE SYNAGOGUES YE SHALL BE BEATEN: AND YE SHALL BE
BROUGHT BEFORE RULERS AND KINGS FOR MY SAKE, FOR A TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM.
Lk 12:11-AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES,
AND UNTO MAGISTRATES, AND POWERS, TAKE YE NO THOUGHT HOW OR WHAT THING YE
SHALL ANSWER, OR WHAT YE SHALL SAY.

Mk
10:33-SAYING, BEHOLD, WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM; AND THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE
DELIVERED UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND UNTO THE SCRIBES; AND THEY SHALL CONDEMN
HIM TO DEATH, AND SHALL DELIVER HIM TO THE GENTILES.
Mt 26:59-NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND ELDERS, AND ALL THE COUNCIL,
SOUGHT FALSE WITNESSAGAINST JESUS, TO PUT HIM TO DEATH.
Mt 26:57-AND THEY THAT HAD LAID HOLD ON JESUS LED HIM
AWAY TO CAIAPHAS THE HIGH PRIEST, WHERE THE SCRIBES AND THE ELDERS WERE
ASSEMBLED.
Mt 27:2-AND WHEN THEY HAD BOUND HIM, THEY LED HIM
AWAY, AND DELIVERED HIM TO PONTIUS PILATE THE GOVERNOR.
Mt 27:11-AND JESUS STOOD BEFORE THE GOVERNOR: AND
THE GOVERNOR ASKED HIM, SAYING, ART THOU THE KING OF THE JEWS? AND JESUS SAID
UNTO HIM, THOU SAYEST.
Lk 23:1-AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THEM AROSE, AND LED
HIM (Jesus) UNTO PILATE.
Jn 18:29-PILATE THEN WENT OUT UNTO THEM, AND SAID, WHAT ACCUSATION
BRING YE AGAINST THIS MAN?
Lk 23:7-AND AS SOON AS HE KNEW THAT HE BELONGED UNTO HERODíS
JURISDICTION, HE SENT HIM TO HEROD, WHO HIMSELF ALSO WAS AT JERUSALEM
AT THAT TIME.
Lk 23:23-25-AND THEY WERE INSTANT WITH LOUD VOICES, REQUIRING
THAT HE MIGHT BE CRUCIFIED. AND THE VOICES OF THEM AND OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS
PREVAILED. AND PILATE GAVE SENTENCE THAT IT SHOULD BE AS THEY REQUIRED. AND
HE RELEASED UNTO THEM HIM THAT FOR SEDITION AND MURDER WAS CAST INTO PRISON,
WHOM THEY HAD DESIRED; BUT HE DELIVERED JESUS TO THEIR WILL.

107-FALSE
WITNESSES MAY LIE AGAINST YOU

When
a Christian has to go to court or before other officials, false witnesses may
rise up against him and accuse him of things he knows nothing about or they
may distort facts. It is written, Mt 26:59-62-NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND ELDERS,
AND ALL THE COUNCIL, SOUGHT FALSE WITNESS AGAINST JESUS, TO PUT HIM TO DEATH;
BUT FOUND NONE: YEA, THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME, YET FOUND THEY NONE.
AT THE LAST CAME TWO FALSE WITNESSES, AND SAID, THIS FELLOW SAID, I AM
ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND TO BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS. AND THE HIGH
PRIEST AROSE, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ANSWEREST THOU NOTHING? WHAT IS IT WHICH THESE
WITNESS AGAINST THEE?
Mt 27:12-AND WHEN HE WAS ACCUSED OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS
AND ELDERS, HE ANSWERED NOTHING.
Mk 15:3-AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS ACCUSED HIM OF MANY THINGS;
BUT HE ANSWERED NOTHING.
Lk 23:2-AND THEY BEGAN TO ACCUSE HIM, SAYING, WE FOUND
THIS FELLOW PERVERTING THE NATION, AND FORBIDDING TO GIVE TRIBUTE TO CAESAR,
SAYING THAT HE HIMSELF IS CHRIST A KING.

108-OFFICIALS
MAY BRIBE PEOPLE TO LIE

Certain
people in important positions may bribe others to lie and testify against a
born-again Christian. They may threaten people to lie about a born-again person,
and if they refuse, they may even come against that person also. It is written,
Mt 28:12-15-AND WHEN THEY WERE ASSEMBLED WITH THE ELDERS, AND HAD TAKEN COUNSEL,
THEY GAVE LARGE MONEY UNTO THE SOLDIERS, SAYING, SAY YE, HIS DISCIPLES
CAME BY NIGHT, AND STOLE HIM AWAY WHILE WE SLEPT. AND IF THIS COME TO THE GOVERNOR'S
EARS, WE WILL PERSUADE HIM, AND SECURE YOU. SO THEY TOOK THE
MONEY, AND DID AS THEY WERE TAUGHT: AND THIS SAYING IS COMMONLY REPORTED
AMONG THE JEWS UNTIL THIS DAY.

109-JURIES
MAY NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH

When
a born-again Christian is tried, the jury may not believe the truth. It is written,
Mt 26:63-66-BUT JESUS HELD HIS PEACE. AND THE HIGH PRIEST ANSWERED AND SAID
UNTO HIM, I ADJURE THEE BY THE LIVING GOD, THAT THOU TELL US WHETHER THOU
BE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID:
NEVERTHELESS I SAY UNTO YOU, HEREAFTER SHALL YE SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON
THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. THEN THE HIGH PRIEST
RENT HIS CLOTHES, SAYING, HE HATH SPOKEN BLASPHEMY; WHAT FURTHER NEED
HAVE WE OF WITNESSES? BEHOLD, NOW YE HAVE HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY. WHAT THINK YE?
THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, HE IS GUILTY OF DEATH.
Jesus had told the truth, but He was condemned. He was not
believed.

110-A
BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN MAY BE BRUTALLY MISTREATED

Born-again
Christians may be brutally beaten, mocked and spit upon. It is written, Mt 26:67,68-THEN
DID THEY SPIT IN HIS FACE, AND BUFFETED HIM; AND OTHERS SMOTE
HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS, SAYING, PROPHESY UNTO US, THOU CHRIST,
WHO IS HE THAT SMOTE THEE?

111-A
CHRISTIAN MAY BE PUT IN PRISON

A
born-again Christian may be put in prison. It is written, Mk 1:14-NOW AFTER
THAT JOHN WAS PUT IN PRISON, JESUS CAME INTO GALILEE, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Lk 3:20-ADDED YET THIS ABOVE ALL, THAT HE SHUT UP JOHN IN
PRISON.

112-A
CHRISTIAN MAY BE KILLED

Christians
may be killed for doing Godís will. It is written, Mt 14:10-AND HE SENT, AND
BEHEADED JOHN IN THE PRISON.
Mk 12:1-8-AND HE BEGAN TO SPEAK UNTO THEM BY PARABLES. A
CERTAIN MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD, AND SET A HEDGE ABOUT IT, AND DIGGED A PLACE
FOR THE WINEVAT, AND BUILT A TOWER, AND LET IT OUT TO HUSBANDMEN, AND WENT INTO
A FAR COUNTRY. AND AT THE SEASON HE SENT TO THE HUSBANDMEN A SERVANT, THAT HE
MIGHT RECEIVE FROM THE HUSBANDMEN OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD. AND THEY
CAUGHT HIM, AND BEAT HIM, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY. AND AGAIN HE SENT UNTO
THEM ANOTHER SERVANT; AND AT HIM THEY CAST STONES, AND WOUNDED HIM IN THE
HEAD, AND SENT HIM AWAY SHAMEFULLY HANDLED. AND AGAIN HE SENT ANOTHER; AND
HIM THEY KILLED, AND MANY OTHERS; BEATING SOME, AND KILLING SOME.
HAVING YET THEREFORE ONE SON, HIS WELLBELOVED, HE SENT HIM ALSO LAST UNTO THEM,
SAYING, THEY WILL REVERENCE MY SON. BUT THOSE HUSBANDMEN SAID AMONG THEMSELVES,
THIS IS THE HEIR, COME, LET US KILL HIM, AND THE INHERITANCE SHALL BE OURS.
AND THEY TOOK HIM, AND KILLEDHIM, AND CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD.
Mt 23:31-WHEREFORE YE BE WITNESSES UNTO YOURSELVES, THAT
YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THEM WHICH KILLED THE PROPHETS.
Mt 23:34,35-WHEREFORE, BEHOLD, I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS,
AND WISE MEN, AND SCRIBES: AND SOME OF THEM YE SHALL KILL AND CRUCIFY;
AND SOME OF THEM SHALL YE SCOURGE IN YOUR SYNAGOGUES, AND PERSECUTE
THEM FROM CITY TO CITY: THAT UPON YOU MAY COME ALL THE RIGHTEOUS BLOOD SHED
UPON THE EARTH, FROM THE BLOOD OF RIGHTEOUS ABEL UNTO THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH
SON OF BARACHIAS, WHOM YE SLEW BETWEEN THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR.
Mt 24:9-THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP TO BE AFFLICTED, AND
SHALL KILL YOU: AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAMEíS SAKE.
Jn 16:2-THEY SHALL PUT YOU OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUES: YEA, THE
TIME COMETH, THAT WHOSOEVER KILLETH YOU WILL THINK THAT HE DOETH GOD SERVICE.
Lk 18:33-AND THEY SHALL SCOURGE HIM, AND PUT HIM TO DEATH;
AND THE THIRD DAY HE SHALL RISE AGAIN.
Mt 20:19-AND SHALL DELIVER HIM TO THE GENTILES TO MOCK,
AND TO SCOURGE, AND TO CRUCIFY HIM: AND THE THIRD DAY HE SHALL RISE AGAIN.
Mt 17:23-AND THEY SHALL KILL HIM, AND THE THIRD DAY
HE SHALL BE RAISED AGAIN. AND THEY WERE EXCEEDING SORRY.
Mt 27:35-AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS,
CASTING LOTS: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, THEY
PARTED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND UPON MY VESTURE DID THEY CAST LOTS.
Mk 15:24-AND WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED HIM, THEY PARTED
HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS UPON THEM, WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE.
Jn 19:18-WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND TWO OTHER WITH
HIM, ON EITHER SIDE ONE, AND JESUS IN THE MIDST.